ˈcoal-scuttle
1. A receptacle for holding a supply of coal for a fire; a coal-box, coal-scoop.
| 1771 Smollett Humph. Cl. III. 197 The pain occasioned by the fall of the coalscuttle upon his foot. a 1825 Forby Voc. East Ang. I. 72 Coal-hod..otherwise called the coal-scuttle. 1832 Babbage Econ. Manuf. i. (ed. 3) 11 Carts loaded with old tin kettles and worn-out coal⁓skuttles. c 1855 Lytton Autobiog. in Life (1883) I. 128 No companion visited me, save the servant with my meals or the coal-scuttle. |
2. coal-scuttle bonnet: a woman's bonnet resembling an inverted coal-box of the scoop type, usually projecting much beyond the face.
| 1839 Dickens Nich. Nick. xxiii, Miss Snevellici..glanced from the depths of her coal-scuttle straw bonnet at Nicholas. 1867 M. E. Braddon Run to Earth III. xi. 220 A pretty face never looked prettier than when dimly seen in the shadowy depths of a coal-scuttle bonnet. |